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Originally Posted by Tom Houlihan
Kumpel, as you organize your notes from what your father told you, your REALLY need to get your hands on some of Jason Mark's books!!! Google Leaping Horseman Books. I've read two of them, and nothing I've ever seen before makes you feel as if you're in Stalingrad like what Jason wrote.
At the risk of offending Jim, there's a guy selling some books on Feldgrau.net, and you can get some of Jason's books at a substantial discount if you hurry.
How much material do you have from your father?
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Thanks for the tip Tom. I try to read whatever I can get my hands on about the subject with a preference for first-hand accounts.
I actually have quite a bit of notes. They tend to jump around from time line to time line, are speckled with German military slang most of which I have deciphered, but regretably there are gaps I did not catch at the time.
For example I have wonderful details when he first joined the 4th Infantry Div., which later became the 14th Panzer Div., his time in Poland, France and Russia, but no mention of Greece or Yugoslavia, where I now know his division operated.
Most of his recollections are, as one would expect, confined to what he saw and experienced. There are no details about broad strategies in any campaign either because he was not aware what was happening in the grand scheme of the front, or chose rather to relay what was important to him.
His details of Stalingrad itself are clear, graphic and downright haunting.